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Y/ADM/5/13 · Series · 19th-20th century
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes paperwork and applications for various civic posts, including Town Clerk, Parks Superintendant, herdsmen of the Knavesmire, Market Superintendant, engineers, Chief Constable, Medical Officer of Health and coroner.

Town Clerk / Chief Executive
Y/PPT/6/1/5332 · Item · Undated [20th century]
Part of York Civic Archive

Ground and First Floor Plans. Black and White. Showing all domestic details and dimensions. Two 4-bedroom houses and One 3-bedroom house. End House 851 sup ft. Centre House 888 Sup ft. - Drawing type: Floor plan
Drawing number (if any):
Scale: 1 inch:4 foot
Size: Medium
Names: None

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CNR/6/8 · Item · 1958-1970
Part of York Coroner's records

This volume contains very basic summary information about coroners inquests held in York in the period, including name, date of inquest and cause of death. In cases where we do not have a surviving inquest file for a death, the individual entries are listed in this series.

York Coroner
CNR/6/6 · Item · 1949-1957
Part of York Coroner's records

This volume contains very basic summary information about coroners inquests held in York in the period, including name, date of inquest and cause of death. In cases where we do not have a surviving inquest file for a death, the individual entries are listed in this series.

York Coroner
CNR/6/5 · Item · 1949-1954
Part of York Coroner's records

This volume contains very basic summary information about coroners inquests held in York in the period, including name, date of inquest and cause of death. In cases where we do not have a surviving inquest file for a death, the individual entries are listed in this series.

York Coroner
CNR/6/4 · Item · 1943-1947
Part of York Coroner's records

This volume contains very basic summary information about coroners inquests held in York in the period, including name, date of inquest and cause of death. In cases where we do not have a surviving inquest file for a death, the individual entries are listed in this series.

York Coroner
CNR/6/3 · Item · 1940-1949
Part of York Coroner's records

This volume contains very basic summary information about coroners inquests held in York in the period, including name, date of inquest and cause of death. In cases where we do not have a surviving inquest file for a death, the individual entries are listed in this series.

York Coroner
Wardmote court book
Y/COU/3/11 · Item · c.1485-1497 and 1575-1586
Part of York Civic Archive

Proceedings of wardmote courts in the wards of the city including offences, penalties and fines. The first10 folios concen the years 1485-1497 (note these pages are imperfect and badly damaged in places). The bulk of the volume concerrns the years 1575-1586.

Freemen (Unreformed)
Sales and accounts ledger
RBM/1 · File · 1934-1957
Part of RB Mills Tourist and Shipping Agency of Minster Gates

Small ledger, with alphabetical index, used to record sales of travel journeys, mainly showing transatlantic crossings, but also showing cruises and train journeys in Europe, and holiday tours.

Ledger entries principally include the name of the ship, details of the travel arrangements, the names of the purchasers, the date of sale, details of payments made and commission, receipts, the addresses and passport numbers of travellers, and other associated details, which sometimes includes the names and ages of the travellers.

The ledger also includes running accounts for the sale and purchase for stock, principally for a tobacco account, 1943-1948, and a wages and insurance account, 1955.

R.B. Mills Shipping and Tourist Agency
Hungate area
Y/PPT/2/1/10/21 · Item · c1933
Part of York Civic Archive

Comprises black and white clearance photographs [album] of the Hungate area.

Deeds
WRL/3/1 · File · 20 February 1662-2 September 1774
Part of Weatherill family

Includes two deeds which were co-located with the collection, presumably relating to lands owned later by the Weatherill family. One (1774) relates to property in Angram, whilst the other (1662) relates to property in Fossgate, City of York, held at the time by John Straker.

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Legal papers
WRL/3 · Series · 20 February 1662-2 September 1774
Part of Weatherill family

Includes two deeds which were co-located with the collection, presumably relating to lands owned later by the Weatherill family.

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Correspondence
WRL/2 · Series · 31 October 1708-23 May 1797
Part of Weatherill family

Letters primarily relating to family matters.

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Scrapbook
WRL/1 · Item · 1760-1878
Part of Weatherill family

Includes birth, marriage and death details of members of the Weatherill family, as well as information on city seals, photographs, obituary of William Harrison and his widow Susanna, testimonial to W Coates, painting by Mary Weatherill and poem by H Weatherill.

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Weatherill family
WRL · Fonds · 31 October 1708-23 May 1797

Contains one scrapbook of correspondence and miscellania, one file of loose correspondence and two legal deeds.

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GRF/7/5 · Item · 1813-1826
Part of Gray Family Papers

An account of the illness and last hours of Lucy Gray, Jan 1813, by her brother Edmund Gray including copies of relative's letters. Also includes a silhouette of Lucy Gray as a frontispiece. Pages 39-70 are an account of the illness and death of Margaret Hey, nee Gray, by her husband the Rev. Samuel Hey, Jan 1826.

Gray; William (1751-1845); Solicitor
Finance Committee minutes
Y/COU/5/5/2 · Series · 1836-1931
Part of York Civic Archive

These volumes contain indexes.

1 1836-47
2 1847-57
3 1857-68
4 1868-77
5 1877-84
6 1884-87
7 1887-90
8 1890-94
9 1894-97
10 1897-1900
11 1900-02
12 1902-05
13 1905-06
14 1906-08
15 1908-10
16 1910-13
17 1913-17
18 1917-21
19 1921-25
20 1925-31

Finance and General Purposes Committee
Peter Hawley papers
HAW · Fonds · 1845-c.2000

The collection includes a Leeds City Police moon chart, 'stranger danger' posters, children's training materials on the history of the police, service and character book for John Raisbeck, papers on the career of Francis Denham, copies of images relating to police officers and the history of crime and punishment, typescripts regarding the history of policing in York and handwritten notes on other aspects of police history.

Peter Hawley